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Aesthetic Collectives: On the Nature of Collectivity in Cultural Performance

Aesthetic Collectives: On the Nature of Collectivity in Cultural Performance

Wiskowski, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

PhilosophyActing & AuditioningGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 1032071354
ISBN13: 9781032071350
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 14 2022
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses attention on groups of performing people that are unique aesthetic objects, the focus of an artist's vision, but at the same time a collective being; a singular, whole mass that exists and behaves like an individual entity.

This text explores this unique experience, which is far from rare or special. Indeed, it is pervasive, ubiquitous and has, since the dawn of performance, been with us. Surveying installation art from Vanessa Beecroft & Kanye West, Greek tragedy, back-up dancing groups and even the mass dance of clubbing crowds, this text examines and names this phenomenon: Aesthetic Collectives. Drawing on a range of methods of investigation spanning performance studies, acting theory, studies of atmosphere and affect and sociology it presents an intervention in the literature for something that has long deserved its own attention.

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